Motivated and Displaced Revenge: Remembering 9/11 Suppresses Opposition to Military Intervention in Syria (for Some)

Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 89-104

  Washburn, Anthony N ^a   Skitka, Linda J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARMED FORCES; MILITARY INTERVENTION; POLITICAL CONFLICT; TERRORISM;

ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84951877204     PISSN: 15297489     EISSN: 15302415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/asap.12062     Document Type: Article

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